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catilinas · 1 year

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aeneid 6.638-41, 6.672-5 trans. a.s. kline / plutarch, life of tiberius gracchus 9.4-5 trans. perrin

#aeneid daily #now i understand that this is a parallel for me and me alone and also it is barely even there. BUT. but.#(and bear in mind idk what plutarch's source for this speech was + he was writing After vergil)#a) i think it is very interesting that tiberius gracchus says that about the lack of graves. when the air and light thing in the aeneid is #in The Underworld #b) 'they are styled masters of the world' / the (future) glory of rome shown to aeneas in aeneid 6 vs like. the pessimistic reading of it #via dead marcellus. sure is something #c) something something the gracchi -> chain of events -> the social war. and it is VERY fun to think about the social war in the bg of #the aeneid.#d) um. lucan. this parallel literally was only noticeable to me because of the What If The Popularis Ghosts Did Underworld Agrarian Reform #And Redistributed The Elysian Fields thing in the pharsalia #which is mostly?????? me going haha. what if. but also. WHAT IF??? i do think it's There even if it's not the main thing happening in that #whole situation. and now im like. what if this is yet another instance of 'something cool in lucan was actually also in vergil all along'#much to consider. when it is not The Night.#aeneid #plutarch #beeps

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agnesandhilda · 1 year

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pussy so good he forgets about his gods-given quest

#bolo liveblogs #the aeneid #what the fuck is up with book four.#roman mythology

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morningsaidthemoon · 2 months

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Excerpt from The Song of Roland, translated by Norma Lorre Goodrich (Medieval Myths)

#THIS HAS BEEN A PET PROJECT. I FUCKING LOVE THE SONG OF ROLLAND #song of roland #clay does art #so. okay bear with me #the song of Roland / chanson de rollanz was an epic poem written in the 11th century about the real battle of Roncevaux Pass in #the 8th century.#so 11th c ? we are smack in those middle ages #and its old copies were recorded as illuminated manuscripts #yet! it is technically an epic!! its an epic poem!!!! I don’t believe there were many written between Roland and the Aeneid (19 BCE)#in the west?#so like . WILD COMEBACK!!#this comic (?) is me playing with this idea of both muddling and clarifying the reality (8th c. real battle. he died.)#with the context of the poem (11th c. chivalric code. this was the hamilton of the time I must assume)#the translation from old french (flows better in modern English than it does in modern french apparently?)#and me. making it a scrolling comic. inspiration from real armor of the 8th century #although 11th c manuscripts armor them like they’re contemporary #I did hand lettering! as a manuscript would be!!#but my composition is wildly different than theirs #I could go on ! but I shant. ty for reading #no id #< I do not. know how . I would do this one #long post #kinda

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saint-sebastian-coded · 7 months

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wdym i have to "write essays" and "complete assignments" instead of what i was born to do: listen to loud music and watch spring come in

#who gives a shit about the aeneid who cares about how much of history we can piece together about herodotus #the peach blossom is out??? the apple blossom is blooming???

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absolutechaosss · 9 months

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Fuck it, classics predictions for Tumblr in 2024

Terfs will go so far in their bio essentialism that they will insist that women are fundamentally cold and wet and men are hot and dry, due to being cooked more in the womb

Fake Tumblr activism will accidentally bring back the Oppian Laws

Aeneas will become Tumblrs new poor little meow meow but only after someone publishes a retelling where he and Turnus are in love

Someone invents another fake goddess

Oracle of Delphi blog emerges to catalogue Tumblr moments of prophecy

#these are all terrible. please tell me if you have your own #i do think if someone pitched aeneas and turnus as toxic enemies to lovers the aeneid would do numbers on here. for better or for worse #tagamemnon #classics memes

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wolfythewitch · 22 days

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Is there a reason Zeus hates Odysseus?

Where? In the odyssey I don't think he cares much for him haha. He kills his crew at Helios' behest (otherwise he would shine for the dead instead), because Odysseus' men had killed his cows. He's pretty ambivalent to Odysseus throughout the epic otherwise.

Unless you mean epic the musical, then I have no idea

#wolfy tedtalks #the only guy who really has a vendetta against him is poseidon #same with hera and aeneas in the aeneid i hear

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thoodleoo · 4 months

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surely THIS fancy edition of my favorite ancient text will fix me

#hoarding my aeneids. i love them #tagamemnon #queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra

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lykeios · 7 months

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once i start posting in latin it’s over for y’all

#i feel like we as a society must stop recognizing english as a universal tongue and go back to latin #tagamemnon #classics #classical literature #the aeneid #greek mythology #latin literature #roman mythology #latin #latin language #lingua latina

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boatmediatourney · 8 months

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🌊Sad Soggy Boat Men Tournament🌊

Round 4A (semifinals), match 1

Propaganda and image sources under the cut (warning for possible spoilers):

propaganda for Odysseus:

image from Wikipedia

propaganda for Aeneas:

image from here

#odysseus #the odyssey #aeneas #the aeneid #classicsblr #ssbmt polls #ssbmt semifinals

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firnen-the-teragram-teabag · 5 months

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fluentisonus · 6 months

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speaking of polydorus. playing around w embroidery

#tried to give the second one a sort of meat texture around the veins/roots but idk that it worked out haha.#i think it just looks too crowded but i only had two colors so oh well #thoughts #my art #polydoruscore #also the only bit of text i could fit lol sorry abt leaving off the verb etc #aeneid

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dnasplicers · 1 year

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thinking abt patroclus and hektors bodies in the iliad and the aeneid. patroclus appearing to achilles as achilles loved him instead of as he died and hektor appearing to aeneas as mutilated even when we know apollo stopped his body from rotting. thinking abt the effect of the living on the dead

#ik this post has probably been made before but AUGH!!!!!!!! FUCK BRO!!!!!!!!!!!!!#tagamemnon #ilod #txt #hektor of troy #aeneas #patrochilles #patroclus #achilles #the aeneid #the iliad #greatest hits

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lady-stardust-incarnate · 6 days

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A brief summary of how each character is doing at the end of the trojan war

Menelaus - alive!!! (somehow)

Helen - alive! was gonna get killed but she's too hot for that

Achilles - dead

Patroclus - dead

Paris - dead, shot in the dick (ha)

Hector - dead, body absolutely massacred (you were a dick for that Achilles)

Agamemnon - alive then dead (you were a queen for that Clytemnestra)

Odysseus - blublublublub (jk he gets Penelope and Telemachus back but not before slaughtering most of the nobles of Ithica, there's kind of a whole book on it)

Ajax - dead

Diomedes - cucked (aphrodite's punishment for fucking up her wrist)

Aeneas - bringing the squad to Italy (there's kind of a whole book on it)

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rowanisawriter · 3 months

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deeply embarrassing being god born in ancient greece i think, everyone knows the exact place and detailed story of your conception, “yeah that’s aeneas his mom and dad fucked at the foot of mount ida” i would die. i would die every time someone addressed me by my full name “aeneas son of anchises who everyone knows aphrodite fucked at the foot of mount ida” god

#i also am deeply deeply in love with aeneas btw #he is so cute he gets fooled by aphrodite coming to him in the form of a young woman and as she reveals herself he gets so mad that she #doesn’t just talk straight to him lmfao the first of all the characters in these old poems I’ve read to actually ask that #like literally why doesn’t she just talk to him straight like he’s so right to throw a fit about it lol #i love him sm #the iliad #the aeneid #im so excited it’s gorgeous so far

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cerasifera · 8 months

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pious aeneas

#the aeneid #aeneas #virgil #greek mythology #roman mythology #ish #my art #kind of a redraw of the cover of Shadi Bartsch’s translation #also #turnus pov

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notacluedo · 9 months

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Happy new year everyone read Lavinia by Ursula k le guin

#It’s so good genuinely like such an interesting exploration of Lavinia as a character without like #Falling into the traps of more modern ‘feminist’ myth retellings #Imo at least #and the inclusion of Virgil as a storytelling device??? So swag #Also achates is gay for Aeneas so #Win win #the Aeneid #lavinia #virgil #my art #roman mythology #ursula k. le guin

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